Web Requests and Web Services
Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) are often used as labels to refer to two different approaches to implementing a web-based Application Programming Interface (API).
The growth of cloud-based services in recent years has pushed the chances of working with such interfaces from rare to almost certain.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Web requests
- Working with REST
- Working with SOAP
Before beginning with the main topics of the chapter, there are some technical requirements to consider.